Mid East Matters Online
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Episodes of Mid East Matters Online
Mark All
The departure of Sultan Qaboos of Oman in the early days of 2020, marks the end of an era in the Arab world. Many founders of republics, kingdoms and sheikdoms have departed before him, to the great loss of their nations. To name but a few one
2019 will be remembered for key political events including, the start of the partisan proceedings in the US Congress to impeach Donald J. Trump, the resounding election victory of the Tories in the UK, and the unprecedented democratic protests
The revolts in the many towns and cities of Lebanon are unprecedented. They are true expressions of a young (and not so young) multi-confessional generation that is fed up with the incompetence and decay of State-institutions and, with the unhi
The Bloomberg article of November 7, 2019, on the need for the Rich to get a Haircut (in Lebanon), is pertinent in both its take and approach. But one needs to imagine a more probable (not unique) scenario for a drastic plan to overcome the dau
In his last public speech, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, a misnomer to start with ‘cause it gives the feel of a U.N. like organization, was nervous. His face did not reveal the full extent of his anxiety nor did his voice divulge his true
Lebanon is rapidly sliding into a Venezuelan scenario. The eruption of spontaneous protests that have been prompted by a simmering public anger were looming on the horizon since the middle of 2018, if not much earlier. The reason is simple: a k
This article is few weeks late. Maybe it took that much time to realize the facts, to intelligently react to them and to think about a different outcome to the circumstances that prevailed and that are still unfolding ever since.A question has
Pres. Trump has blinked first and, not on one occasion, with the cunning Mullahs of Tehran. Not that the US cannot wipe out the Iranian Navy, Army and Air Force in one afternoon while still making it on time to watch the Sunday football game. H
The Southern Border of Lebanon remained quiet for 13 years till today. The last conflagration broke out in 2006 and disaster befell the land of the Cedars despite claims to the contrary. The infrastructure was wrecked, villages bombed for days
The confrontations that Iran is seeking in the Gulf and which include repeated attacks on civilian targets such as commercial oil tankers, Abha airport and, the ARAMCO oil installations in Saudi, are all diplomatic missives addressed to the Tru
The tension in the Persian Gulf is building up, as one can almost sense and smell in the air. The dark clouds are gathering and so are the US naval fleets and long-range strike bombers. Sabre rattling by Iran has started to rise as well as the
Since time immemorial the Christians of Lebanon had to choose between the Mamluks and the Ottomans, the Crusaders and the Muslims armies, and between the West and the East. Should they be allied with a distant Christian West or with a nearby Mu
Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Zein Al Abidine Bin Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Ali Abdallah Saleh, Omar Al Bachir, and Boutaflika, constitute an A team where ‘A’ stands for a mix of Assassins, Authoritarians, and Autocrats. The Arab Spring, in its fi
US Secretary of State, the Honorable Mike Pompeo will be visiting Lebanon this week. He will be meeting with State officials and members of government. The Secretary knows full-well that the parents who conceived this government, the mid-wife t
Thetitle is long and lays out the case before the readers as it prematurely revealsthe verdict of the writer. Let us not beat around the bushes and call a spade aspade. US diplomacy in the Middle East has historically been wobbly and fretted
Barbarians are often single handedly and wrongly so, credited with the fall of Rome. That has many benefits, for the Roman that is. As a starter it washes away their guilt and complicity in the decline, demise and ultimately the fall of their o
All politicians are engaged in this pernicious game and are equally caught into its vicious web. President Erdogan talks about Turkey’s growing hemisphere of influence in the Middle East, North Africa the Western Balkans, and lest we forget
The killing of any human being is and should be labeled, an abject, horrible, despicable crime. Since Cain and Abel, at the dawn of time, there has not been any other way to describe the taking of someone’s life in a deliberate and premeditated
The country is not really desert whilst being part of the Arabian Peninsula, with a terrain that offers some of the most astonishing beaches and coves that eyes could see. Less than few miles in-land and you can delight at the sight of proudly
The land known as Mount Lebanon and which constituted under the Maan and Chehab dynasties the political entity governed by a local ‘Prince’ after securing the sine qua non approval of the Ottoman suzerain, had few truisms inherent to it and emb
The moment you set foot outside the airplane doors, you hear shouting: “Mr. Hassan, Mrs. Khoury, Dr. Khalid ”! These are not the names of lucky bingo players on a Sunday afternoon, nor are they Oscar Award nominees or Nobel Prize Laureates. The
What if Iran agrees to the demands of the current US administration? What if Iran calls off its nuclear program, dismantles its ballistic missiles’ arsenal, and stops interfering in neighboring countries by discontinuing the military, logistic
That’s what every dictator, autocrat, plutocrat or theocrat has missed. They can round up the opposition, deport dissidents, muzzle up the media, imprison rebels, suppress liberties and occupy every square and street in town for days on end, al
Lately, loud moaning and desperate voices from liberals and conservatives alike at think tanks, universities, the media outlets and even government officials have surpassed all bounds. All declamations are warning -with frantic antics- of the i
The phenomenon of sexual harassment predates the Weinstein scandal by thousands of years. Men have acted with boldness and primal manners for almost all of their existence in the presence of women as well as in their absence. The new wave of an
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